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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]73% is a pretty strong repudiation of the DC Council. [/quote]

To be fair, I wonder if all voters actually fully understood what Prop 83 meant. Some people might have just seen as “oh look more choices to vote” and just checked the box for shts a giggles and out of confusion.

I did it knowing that it could result in more moderate candidates.

But did anyone else pay attention to the campaign from a lot of pandering liberals and left leaning folks who said “oh no! We can’t have ranked choice! It’s too confusing for poor voters in Ward 7 and 8!”

Like it was this ironic and extremely rude mindset that poor people didn’t understand it or, really, that they should be protected from their own choices. Just so much soft bigotry of low expectations. Like it’s pretty fked up that some know it all progressive would try and shoot down ranked choice under that banner. Basically, they knew that it could lead to more choices and potentially, gasp, less candidates like Nadeau. Pretty underhanded and patronizing.[/quote]

You started your statement saying people didn’t understand what they were voting for and then admonish liberals for assuming people wouldn’t understand ranked choice voting.  You sound just like them.[/quote]

Sure. You’re right. I’m a hypocrite. Doesn’t change the face that liberals were touting the harms of ranked choice voting by the soft bigotry of low expectations and “they don’t know any better”. It’s fked up. It’s partly why Trump won. People are fed up with progressive left wing nanny state bs.[/quote]

This is painfully ignorant.

It wasn’t “liberals” opposing RCV. It was the DC Democratic Party.

Many “liberals” and “progressives” - like Christina Henderson - supported the initiative.[/quote]

It wasn’t the republicans, now was it?

I more alarmed the reasoning that democrats needed to “protect the voters from themselves” as if they were too stupid to know who they were voting for. It’s very paternalism. And yes progressives were part of the movement against it as well. You are wrong.[/quote]

DC Council has been patronizing the citizens and the Mayor in the worst ways imaginable. First they repealed their own term limits so they can stay in power for forever. Then they threatened to not fund the Prop 83 voted in with 73% because the voters are too feeble minded apparently. Grow up it’s over.[/quote]

The mayor was ardently opposed to Prop 83. You must not have heard.[/quote]

The political class, particularly those who won with a plurality rather than majority of votes, oppose it. This isn't hard.[/quote]

Yes. I hate the ejection result, but it’s 4 years and doesn’t affect my very day life. I hate these types way more because they don’t have term limits, openly take bribes, and do this out of pure self-interest, and have negatively affected every aspect of my life. I’ve lived in DC for 25 years and it’s only the last 5 that I even know or care who’s on DC Council and that’s only for negative reasons: eroded life in the City, idiotic and criminal behavior, always on the wrong side of every issue for personal populist gain

Just because you’re left-wing doesn’t mean you can’t be a populist, a fascist, a demagogue, a tyrant. In fact many were. DC rose up [/quote]

Out of curiosity, why do you pin all the blame on the Council. Yes, they have passed a number of dumb laws, but they have no authority over MPD or the US Attorney’s Office which prosecutes violent crime. The real problems would appear to be with the mayor - who appoints the MPD chief and a bunch of other important positions, such as the DCPS head - and the US Attorney.[/quote]
“Why do you put all the blame on the Council” LMFAO. 
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So many reasons. Chief amongst which in no particular order: they take bribes openly, once they do they are still on the ballot, they repealed their own term limits to enact a lifetime employment opportunity, and have threatened to not fund a proposition aimed at a greater and more democratic turnover of seats so as not to lose said lifetime employment opportunity

That they are also patronizing and underachieving is just the icing [/quote]
I absolutely agree with you. The blame the mayor not the Council people are clowns. The Council is feckless and corrupt. It’s low hanging fruit to blame them. Particularly since they actively inhibit the mayor from effective administration of the city. I’m not going to defend the Mayor, but at least the mayor has some need to be responsible. The Council act like preening children. [/quote]

If the mayor has some need to be responsible, then she is responsible for what has happened in this city over the past ten years. Has anything changed for the better in that time? Can you name one thing? None of the agencies under her purview are any better. Not DCPS, not MPD, not OUC, not DPW, and so on as on. It’s a total shitshow.[/quote]

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